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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are some of his voluntary motions?
(a) internals like digesting and breathing
(b) activities like hearing and seeing
(c) functions like pulse and respiration
(d) feelings like desire, appetite, love and hate

2. Why must people create a covenant or agreement to give power to one person, or small group of people?
(a) It is not possible to assemble all the people all the time.
(b) Some think too highly of themselves or blow things out of proportion.
(c) That is the natural way of doing things.
(d) Too many cooks spoil the broth.

3. What does Hobbes say ends a discourse?
(a) A person speaks a different language.
(b) A person grows tired of talking and shuts up.
(c) A person learns the answer to a question or he/she gives up.
(d) A person runs out of anything to say.

4. What is Hobbes' position on mothers and their children?
(a) Mothers have no rights to children.
(b) The state owns all children.
(c) The mother is the natural owner of the children.
(d) Mothers will abandon their children.

5. What are examples of Hobbes' involuntary motions?
(a) writing, feeling, and sleeping
(b) breathing, blood flow, and other bodily functions
(c) thinking, eating, and reading
(d) planning, acting, and rejoicing

6. What is Hobbes' only conditionality regarding all people being created equal?
(a) Some may be taller than others.
(b) Some may be stronger or smarter than others.
(c) Some may be better looking than others.
(d) Some may be born into money.

7. How can it be said that each man in a group has a voice?
(a) because they all speak in unison
(b) because their representative shares their same opinions
(c) because they get to speak one by one
(d) because no deaf mute is allowed to participate

8. What is the sovereign power, whether it is an individual or an assembly?
(a) a king and his court
(b) the courts
(c) the senate
(d) the representative of the commonwealth

9. When does Hobbes suggest it is not logical to follow the Golden Rule?
(a) when there are no other people around
(b) in times of war
(c) during a natural disaster
(d) when no one else is following it

10. How may a commonwealth be formed?
(a) the first is by inheritance and the second is by accident
(b) the first is by experience and the second is by heredity
(c) the first is by election and the second is by popularity
(d) the first is by natural force or acquisition and the second is by mutual agreement.

11. What is needed to be able to judge what is just or unjust?
(a) contracts
(b) judges
(c) statistics
(d) lawyers

12. What two factors does Hobbes believe control mental discourse?
(a) Love and hate
(b) Vocabulary and definitions
(c) Education and experience
(d) Desire and fear

13. When a multitude becomes one group, what must they select?
(a) a set of rules, regulations, and by-laws
(b) a representative who is trusted by all the group members
(c) the furniture that is appropriate for a group
(d) an appropriate meeting place large enough to accomodate all

14. What does Hobbes define as moral virtues?
(a) justice, gratitude, modesty, equity, and mercy
(b) sharing, educating, explaining, and contributing
(c) fearing, obeying, ordering, and supplanting
(d) conforming, working, learning, and manufacturing

15. To what does Hobbes say people attribute that which is unknown?
(a) to imagination
(b) to God and religion
(c) to scientific researsh
(d) to ghosts and spirits

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Hobbes say it is natural for the mother to have dominion over children?

2. What kind of idea does Hobbes classify as good wit?

3. What needs to be given to the shy people?

4. What results are there when an actor makes a contract?

5. How does Hobbes define a monarchy?

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